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Landing Platform vs Smartsheet: real products, not sheets
Smartsheet is a powerful grid for managing work. Landing gives you the systems teams end up building in grids, a CRM, timesheets, HR, a helpdesk, invoicing and email marketing, as finished products on one record.
Landing suits you if
- You have a CRM, a leave tracker or a ticket log built in sheets
- You want finished products that someone else maintains
- You want projects, people and money on one record
Where the sheets start to strain.
A grid can model almost anything. Someone has to build it, and keep it working.
Systems built by hand
Your pipeline, leave tracker and request log are sheets someone designed, and they break when that person leaves.
More power, more add-ons
Dynamic View, Data Shuttle, Resource Management and Control Center are sold on top of the plan.
Rows, not records
A contact in one sheet and an invoice in another are two rows, joined by whoever keeps the lookups right.
Landing Platform vs Smartsheet, line by line.
On projects and timelines Landing stands level. Everything you would otherwise build in a sheet comes finished.
| Feature | Landing Platform |  Smartsheet |
|---|---|---|
| Projects and boards | Kanban, lists, Gantt with dependencies and milestones, a portfolio view and templatesCore | Gantt, board, calendar and table views |
| Forms | Forms, pop-ups and multi-step forms that land on the customer recordCore | Included |
| Timesheets | Timers, a week grid, and timesheets that fill from each person's Outlook calendar overnightCore | Sheets you design |
| Capacity and workloads | Contracted, scheduled and free hours per person, twelve weeks ahead, with leave already countedCore | Workload tracking on Business |
| A CRM | Contacts, companies, deals and pipelines, built as a productCore | Sheets you design |
| HR and leave | Records, leave, balances, bank holidays and the org chartCore | Sheets you design |
| Helpdesk | One inbox for email and live chat with macros and assignment rulesCore | Sheets and forms you design |
| Invoicing | Invoices from logged hours, milestones or a monthly retainer, plus checkoutCore | Not part of the product |
| Email marketing | Campaigns and flows with segments on the whole customer recordCore | Not part of the product |
| Landing pages and sites | Forms, pop-ups, pages and sites; AI pages on GrowthCore | Not part of the product |
| Resource management | Capacity and workloads, in every planCore | Add-on |
Plan tags show where a feature starts on Landing: Core, Growth or Scale. Smartsheet details reflect its publicly available plans as of 2026; check current details on its own site.
What it costs, side by side.
Smartsheet charges per member, per month, with add-ons for its advanced tools. Landing charges full price only for the people who work in it every day.
Smartsheet, as it lists it
How Smartsheet is sold, as its pricing page describes it.
And still to buy separately: a CRM, a helpdesk, an HR app, invoicing and email marketing.
a month on Landing, billed yearly, ex VAT
Includes projects, forms, timesheets, capacity, CRM, HR, a helpdesk, invoicing, email and pages.
Work out your own priceExample team on Core: four people who run projects, sales and marketing every day, sixteen who pick up tasks, log time and approve. Profit per client and AI come with Growth.
Switching is our job, not yours.
We move you over one tool a month, against success criteria we agree with you up front. You don't pay until we prove each one is ready.
We map your stack
Show us how you use Smartsheet and the tools around it. We agree what moves where, and what "ready" means for each tool, before you commit to anything.
We move Smartsheet across
We move your project sheets, and the pipeline, leave or request sheets you built, into the products they were standing in for, as part of the switch. Contacts and subscribers can come straight from CSV. We check every live project before you switch off.
You sign it off
Billing starts only when we have shown it works against the criteria you set. Then we move the next tool, one a month.
But we can build anything in Smartsheet.
You can. Here is what teams ask when they are tired of maintaining it.
What happens to the systems we built in sheets?
They become the real thing: your pipeline sheet becomes a CRM, your leave sheet becomes HR with balances and bank holidays, and your request log becomes a helpdesk.
Does Landing have Gantt and dependencies?
Yes. Gantt with dependencies and milestones, boards, lists, a portfolio view across projects and templates for the work you repeat.
Do we need add-ons for resourcing?
No. Capacity and workloads are in every plan: contracted, scheduled and free hours per person, up to twelve weeks ahead, with leave already counted.
Do people who only update tasks need a full seat?
No. People who get tasks, log time and approve are Members, from £4 a month. Clients and guests are free.
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